Top UAP News 2025
2025 has been a watershed year for the UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena) topic, marked by a shift from “fringe theory” to a core concern of national security and legislative action.
Here at the UAP News Center we linked to over 3200 articles covering the UAP phenomenon and related topics. Here is our top 10 UAP news stories of 2025.
#10 - The Disclosure Day Announcement & Production
In late 2025, Universal Pictures officially titled the project Disclosure Day and released a cryptic teaser trailer that signaled a shift from Spielberg’s usual “wonder-filled” alien encounters to a darker, more modern thriller.
Significance: Coming from the director of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T., the film is being viewed by the disclosure community as a “soft disclosure” tool—a way to prepare the public for the reality of NHI through high-level storytelling.
The “Advisors” Rumor: Throughout 2025, rumors swirled in the UAP community that whistleblowers like Luis Elizondo or former intelligence officials were consulted to ensure the “government cover-up” aspects of the script felt authentic to current whistleblower claims.
Impact on 2025: The movie moved the UAP topic from a niche political issue to a mainstream cultural event, timed perfectly with the Schumer-Rounds Disclosure Act debates in the Senate.
Link: Steven Spielberg’s UFO Movie Gets Full Title: Disclosure Day – Collider
#9 - Enigma Labs: 9,000 Underwater UFO (USO) Reports
The reporting app Enigma Labs released a 2025 summary showing over 9,000 sightings of “Unidentified Submersible Objects” (USOs) within 10 miles of U.S. coastlines, particularly near California and Florida.
Significance: Highlighted the “transmedium” nature of these objects, moving seamlessly between air and water.
#8 - The Wall Street Journal's Disinformation Effort
In June of 2025 the Wall Street Journal release and article titled “The Pentagon Disinformation That Fueled America’s UFO Mythology. The article served as a critical counter-narrative in the 2025 UAP landscape. It argued that decades of “UFO fever” were not caused by aliens, but by the Pentagon itself using UFO stories to mask secret military technology and electronic warfare tests.
Significance: Widely viewed as pro-government-misdirection, it earns a spot on the 2025 top 10 list as a direct attack on the disclosure movement.
Link: The Pentagon Disinformation That Fueled America’s UFO Mythology
#7 - Passing of the FY2026 NDAA UAP Provisions / Failure of Schumer Rounds
The UAP Disclosure Act was re-introduced as an amendment to the FY2026 NDAA. The 2025 version includes more aggressive language regarding “eminent domain” over recovered non-human technology.
Significance: Represents the most significant legislative attempt to legally force the declassification of UAP records, but notable fails for the 3rd time
Passing of the FY2026 NDAA UAP Provisions: Late in 2025, the NDAA was passed with mandates for the Pentagon to provide a consolidated classification matrix for all UAP intercepts.
- Significance: Some minor progress is made in toughening up government reporting requirements for UAP.
#6 - The "Age of Disclosure" Documentary Premieres
Released in late 2025, this documentary features 34 senior U.S. officials—including admirals and intelligence directors—going on the record to confirm the existence of an 80-year cover-up regarding non-human intelligence.
Significance: A massive public-awareness event that synthesized decades of testimony into a single, high-production-value narrative.
- Link: The age of Disclosure | Official Trailer
- Link: Who’s who in upcoming UFO documentary ‘Age of Disclosure’ – News Nation
#5 - Exposure of the "IMMACULATE CONSTELLATION" Program
Investigative journalists and whistleblowers revealed the existence of an alleged Unacknowledged Special Access Program (uSAP) called Immaculate Constellation. The program is said to house high-definition multi-sensor data of UAPs hidden from congressional oversight.
Significance: This revelation led to intense demands for a “UAP Selective Committee” to investigate hidden black-budget programs.
#4 - The House Oversight Committee "Restoring Public Trust" Hearing
In September 2025, a landmark hearing featured multiple military whistleblowers. Witnesses like Jeffrey Nuccetelli and Dylan Borland provided sworn testimony regarding UAP incursions at sensitive military sites, including Vandenberg Space Force Base.
Significance: It was the first hearing where an active-duty Navy official testified publicly about a high-speed “Tic Tac” object emerging from the ocean.
#3 - Release of the "Yemen Orb" Missile Video
During the September 2025 hearings, Representative Eric Burlison revealed declassified footage from October 2024. The video shows a U.S. military MQ-9 drone firing a Hellfire missile at a spherical UAP off the coast of Yemen; the missile appears to strike the object and “bounce off” without destroying it.
Significance: High-quality sensor evidence of physical UAP resilience against conventional weaponry.
#2 - Drone Swarms Over UK and US Air Bases
A “concerning spurt” of reports involving UAPs—often described as sophisticated drones—hovering over sensitive military installations and critical infrastructure has dominated headlines as 2026 begins.
Significance: Reframes the UAP issue as an immediate national security threat rather than just a historical mystery.
#1 - The Palomar Observatory Archival Discovery
In top UAP news 2025, scientists, including Beatriz Villarroel published a study of 70-year-old photographic plates from the Palomar Observatory, discovering “star-like” flashes that appeared near nuclear testing sites decades ago, suggesting UAP surveillance is not a modern phenomenon. The research generated significant media attention and has not to this date been discredited.
Significance: Provided independent, historical astronomical data that correlates with military whistleblower claims about UAPs and nuclear sites.